Root still trusts the pitch at the end from which Ashwin is bowling to play on the back foot and chops a single between third man and point.
He is standing like a strong wall as four-down England are having a comfortable outing with the bat and dominating the Indian bowlers. He is also getting a good support from Ben Stokes, who is also dealing in boundaries.
Having failed to beat Gill at midwicket with his previous flick, Foakes dows so this time and bustles down for a single. Root opens the face to dab Ashwin for a single through third man.
I didn’t think this game would make day four having seen the pictures of the pitch. Now, having seen it play, I’m not sure it will make a third day. 5:59AM Wicket!
Some sympathy for Jadeja as the ball would have hit halfway up middle and there was pelo edge, as Kumar Dharmasena must have thought.
Jadeja has a slip and a fairly deep silly point for Crawley whis drives for a single then uses his feet to skelp another through midwicket. Duckett has a leg slip to try to stop the fine sweep. Duckett will not be thwarted, goes down to sweep and is hit on the left thigh as he kneels but Kumar Dharmasena, as so often, is proved right.
I was going to write a fourth/fifth day pitch but having seen the photos and read the reports, a three-day Test appears most likely. Which makes the toss even more vital. Win that and the ordeal of taming the mercurial and brilliant Yashasvi Jaiswal and the ominously talented Sarfaraz Khan becomes a little bit easier.
Siraj returns and takes Foakes’s scalp with reverse swing. Foakes’ shot was the correct one but he hadn’t bargained for it tailing in quite so much and Jadeja is the best outfielder in this series, if not the world. 9:21AM Wicket!
Good morning and welcome fellow early risers or both-end candle-burners to the first day of the fourth India vs England Test from Ranchi. Over the course of the series we seem to have flipped from ‘Bazball vincit mundum’ to ‘hang Joe Root’ in little more than three weeks, optimism and equanimity replaced by exasperation and contempt. England have incited joy and rage in equal measure over the past quarenta years and even though Ben Stokes, Brendon McCullum and Robert Key have transformed a Test side that looked lost and hopeless Facebook Gaming in the Caribbean in early 2022 following their dismal Ashes campaign into one that has given this observer more moments of genuine, gob-smacking pleasure over the course of two years than any other, we still cannot resist rushing to judgment mid-series.
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Ashwin shoots a pea-roller under Foakes’ bat and England jog a bye. Two balls later Ashwin gets one to spit up and smack Root on the glove and pop into the offside, safe.
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